With nearly 700k concurrent Steam players, a simple Banana game has made its way to the #2 position in the Steam Charts just behind Counter-Strike 2. Unlike the popular games, Banana is a clicker game that unexpectedly drops more bananas and skins.
There seems no way this game could gain such reach but there’s a reason behind it. In Polygon’s interview with the developers, two-thirds of all the active users are bots causing a rapid surge in the player count.
Banana is the most popular game on PC, Banana is also the easiest game ever. Unfortunately,for some reason, almost half of the players failed to get the only 1 trophy that can be earned by clicking on a banana.Many users are waiting for Mods to make the trophy easier to achieve😂 pic.twitter.com/ajpGYzRkfn
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Banana game is gaining massive popularity on Steam
With a minimum 30MB storage space and 128MB RAM, Banana is an extremely small-sized game compatible with almost all devices Also, players have been intentionally using bots to increase click counts and in-game time to drop valuable Banana Skins which are later listed on Steam Marketplace for easy money.
Banana is a clicker Game, in which you click a Banana! In Banana, you click the Banana to gain even more Bananas! Every 3 and 18 hours, you get dropped a banana. Each banana is also made by the community in Discord.
Almost 2/3rd players are Bot, selling Banana skins for money
The discord community curates various Banana Skins. Rare the skin type, the more valuable it is. Players have found an infinite money glitch by listing these skins in exchange for real money. The average skin costs around $0.02 but some skins are sold for the hefty price of $1000.
With consumption lower than 1% of computer resources, it has become cheaper to run a Banana game for 24 hours a day to collect maximum skins, which is the major reason behind the popularity boost.
Banana Game Surpasses Dota 2 In Concurrent Players!
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As of now, Banana game has outsmarted Dota 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds, and Apex Legends in terms of current player count. While Naraka: Bladepoint, Destiny 2, Elden Ring, and GTA V follow the rest of the list.
A similar situation happened with Palworld, which crossed 2 Million concurrent players with massively increasing popularity. At that time, Palworld was seemingly competitive to overtake PUBG but couldn’t.
